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BASSUS, SALEIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 498 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASSUS, SALEIUS , See also:Roman epic poet; a contemporary of See also:Valerius See also:Flaccus, in the reign of See also:Vespasian. See also:Quintilian credits him with a vigorous and poetical See also:genius (Instit. x. 1. 90) and See also:Julius See also:Secundus, one of the speakers in See also:Tacitus Dialogus de Oratoribus (5; see also 9) styles him a perfect poet and most illustrious See also:bard. He was apparently overtaken by poverty, but was generously treated by Vespasian, who made him a See also:present of 500,000 sesterces. Nothing from his See also:works has been pre-served; the Laus Pisonis, which has been attributed to him, is probably by See also:Titus See also:Calpurnius Siculus (J. Held, De Saleio Basso, 1834).

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